...home can be a joyous and rewarding experience. CHAPTER TWO REAL ESTATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground, ALEXANDER POPE Home ownership is truly as American as apple pie. Nowhere else in the world is it as...

...precocious origins, it concerns itself with an ideal that remained dear to him throughout his life: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest! who can unconcern 'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace...

...chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 Happy 2 (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,...

...詩中提及的二位詩 人是荷馬、 維吉茁和彌茁頓。 29 Ode on Solitude 川e 沮nderPope Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace...

...by comparing the youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his Ode on Solitude: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire 0~8) with Epistle II, ii, first published in 1737.42 There, a monetarised world of values now rendering...

...feeling and duties. Pope must have had a similar impression regarding rural life when he wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days and years slide soft away In health of body, peace of...

...bestows on kings. COTTON. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In healdi of body, peace...

...Rural retreat became both a poetic theme and a garden theme. His Ode on solitude was Horatian: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Pope did not see the formal gardens of his day as peaceful forest retreats. His Epistle to Lord Burlington...

...arts that did gain 120 A power must it maintain. 5. Alexander Pope (1700-1709) Ode on Solitude Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound....Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground. 5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose focks supply him with attire, Whose trees in...

...establishing within her the Horatian self-sufficiency Pope longs for in his "Ode on Solitude:" Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. 36 The final verse paragraph of "Tintern Abbey" manages to recapitulate both the economies of sublimation...